Selected songs from Christopher Norton's Micromusicals Book 3 High Voice Piano

Selected songs from Christopher Norton's Micromusicals Book 3 High Voice PianoMicromusicals are short (from 30 minutes to an hour in length) curriculum based musicals for school age performers. Most have been written by Christopher Norton, the composer of the Microjazz series, but some have been either co written with Wendy Edwards Beardall Norton (Christopher Nortons wife) or written entirely by her. The songs in this and subsequent volumes are from the Micromusicals series, which includes nearly 30 musicals. Apart from the

the way a guitarist-composer of that period might have written the arrangement

The Galaxy Series 3 offers a fresh look at favourites such as Jack Was Ev’ry Inch a Sailor

These are complimented by a selection of more reflective

poignant and historical landmark

Listen to a sample:

Jingle Bells

I’m so pleased that these pieces are available to a completely new group of instrumentalists

The entire Connections series presents a kaleidoscope of contrasting styles

as a workshop instructor at various folk music summer camps and my monthly online workshop Harp Talk

The pieces in Connections for Guitar book 1 cover a wide range of styles and present many of the same challenges found in more traditional repertoire whatever the instrument – tonal beauty

but some have been either co-written with Wendy Edwards Beardall-Norton (Christopher Norton’s wife) or written entirely by her

"Guitar transcriptions of these pieces have existed for some time